LG Gram: Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board

The LG Gram was met with decent reviews the first time it was introduced. It wasn’t perfect, but it offered one of the best experiences on an ultraportable notebook. This year comes a refresh of their ultraportable line, but is the LG Gram worth the money? Let’s find out.

Let’s check out this ultraportable.

The LG Gram was met with decent reviews the first time it was introduced. It wasn’t perfect, but it offered one of the best experiences on an ultraportable notebook. This year comes a refresh of their ultraportable line, but is the LG Gram worth the money? Let’s find out.

Weighing more than just a kilogram, the LG Gram is incredibly light and thin, and even with a huge 15-inch display it’s easy to carry it around with one hand without fear of dropping it. The hard shell exterior of the laptop looks sturdy, but the screen itself at times feels that it is not. When opening up the notebook there are times when you feel the screen will bend because of the plastic material used on the exterior.

The island-style backlit keyboard is wide and comfortable to type on, and I love that they’ve included a numerical keypad as well. The trackpad’s size is big enough to accommodate various clicks and swipes, but I’d prefer to have a huge trackpad just like the one found on Apple’s MacBook Pro. The integrated webcam is also situated below the screen (instead at the top). There’s also integrated stereo speakers that while it lacks bass, delivers sonics in an acceptable way or if you want to be discreet, you can use the DTS Headphone: X-enhanced audio port.

But the smaller trackpad may be due to the fact that the excellent 15.6-inch full HD display is actually a touchscreen, meaning you can easily navigate through Windows 10 using your fingers. I’ve owned touchscreen notebooks before, though I’ve barely used them, mostly because I don’t like seeing fingerprints and smudges littered on my screen.

The LG Gram has enough ports to keep any user happy: there’s a microSD card slot, two USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0 port and a new USB Type-C port to make it futureproof. There’s also an HDMI out for connecting the notebook to a compatible display.

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